Labour Affairs Magazine

Labour Affairs – September 2026

September 2026: click to read it on-line at our website.  Or get the whole September 2026 magazine as a PDF.

• Burnham’s Administration is on the Road to Failure
• The Soviet Union as a Failed World State
• Nonsense about Government Bonds
• Newsletter from Germany (BSW)
• Building and Apprenticeships—Views from the Front Line.
• Palestine Links
• The Pursuit of European Unity Through War
• Letter to the Editor about Dianne Abbott and the NATO Russia War
• Notes on the News: Real Civilisations Don’t Clash.
• Democracy et cetera – What Fascism Was and Was Not
• “The Architect or the Bee?” – Problems of Economic Planning
• Human Connections and Individualism

Labour Affairs – July / August 2026

July / August 2026: click to read it on-line at our website.  Or get the whole July / August 2026 magazine as a PDF.

• Burnham Story Should Be About Inequality Not Devolution
• The Limits of Devolution  
• Burnham And Growth Through Defence Spending
• An Unknown Victory of Working Class Struggle
• Palestine Links
• National Security Bill
• Racist Incidents 
• The Origins of Rock
• Zucman’s ‘We Need to Tax the Billionaires’ 
• Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
• Gary Stevenson—Tax the Super-Rich
• Trump and the JCPoA
• Fortress Football
• Notes On the News: Morally bankrupt, but the wages are great!; Tories as Latter-Day Anti-Fascists; ‘Money Makers’ are Chieftains and Money Takers; Snippets; Iran: Willingness to Suffer; Poland and West Ukraine: Normal Hatreds; Resumed; Trump and Musk’s Anti-State Folly; Losing the Moon? Or Losing Life on Mars?; Children of Sixteen?; Lowering the Cost of Motherhood; Green and Compromising.

Labour Affairs – June 2026

June 2026: click to read it on-line at our website.  Or get the whole June 2026 magazine as a PDF. https://labouraffairsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/labour-affairs-369-june-2026.pdf

• Makerfield and Labour’s Future
• Sahra Wagenknecht’s newsletter
• How Employment Law is enforced in the UK
• Is the EU disintegrating?
• God and Evolution: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Iran and Russia 
• Palestine Links
• Notes on the News 
• Four-day international security forum in Russia
• Unemployment and inflation

Labour Affairs – May 2026

May 2026: click to read it on-line at our website.  Or get the whole May 2026 magazine as a PDF. https://labouraffairsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/labour-affairs-368-may-2026.pdf

• Britain and the War on Iran — staring into the abyss
• The Iranian Debacle – A Moment of Opportunity?
• House of Commons Debates on the Middle East
• Sahra Wagenknecht: Germany and a New World Order?
• The Central Bank of Japan
• Notes on the News: Iranian Democracy Deemed Nonexistent
• The Fraud: Starmer,  McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy
• How goes the US/Israel armed aggression against Iran
• Palestine Links
• Leninist Communism – A Better History that Failed to Complete Itself
• Complaints to the BBC

Labour Affairs – April 2026

April 2026: click to read it on-line at our website.  Or get the whole April 2026 magazine as a PDF.

• Britain and the War on Iran — staring into the abyss
• The Iranian Debacle – A Moment of Opportunity?
• House of Commons Debates on the Middle East
• Sahra Wagenknecht: Germany and a New World Order?
• The Central Bank of Japan
• Notes on the News: Iranian Democracy Deemed Non-existent
• The Fraud: Starmer,  McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy
• How goes the US/Israel armed aggression against Iran
• Palestine Links
• Leninist Communism – A Better History that Failed to Complete Itself
• Complaints to the BBC

Newsnotes:

Labour Affairs – March 2026

March 2026: click to read it on-line at our website.  Or get the whole March 2026 magazine as a PDF.

• What Happened in Gorton and Denton?
• Some initial thoughts on the Gorton and Denton by-election
• War is making the UK poorer
• The president’s cake – film review
• Palestine Links
• Workers Party statements on Gorton and Denton
• Robert Skidelsky reflects on the Ukraine War
• Central Banks and Government Spending – A Tale of Two States
• Sahra Wagenknecht: Why doesn’t Merz call Putin?
• The Fraud: book review, part 2 
• Newsnotes: The Wastrels of the Western World; Envy?; Elon Musk Praises England As It Never; Did Exist; Downgrade Motherhood, Be Astonished; at a Lack of Babies; Epstein and a Wider Malaise; Sympathy for the ‘Devil’s Alternative’; From Russia With Self-Incrimination; Venezuela – Trump Lawless But Not; Dumb; Guilty Hangovers from Puritanism; Nuremberg Trials – Lynch Law in Fancy; Dress; Trumpism Without Trump?; Drug Barons and Drug Customers

Labour Affairs – February 2026

February 2026: click to read it on-line at our website.  Or get the whole February 2026 magazine as a PDF.

• Davos – You’re All Fired
• Sahra Wagenknecht’s Newsletter
• The Russian Art of War
• Arbitrary Rule, Sanctions, and Jacques Baud
• Starmer’s U-turn on Digital ID –does he really mean it?
• Palestine Links
• Twilight of the Baby Boomers
• The US Constitution and Its Influences
• The Americanisation of Football
• Money, Money, Money
• Kier Starmer as a Well-Funded Fraud 20
• Venezuelan oil, Sanctions and Petrodollars
• Notes on the News: ; Twilight of the Baby Boomers; Trump – Not For All Mankind; Iran – Another Failed Colour; Revolution; Global Warming as Regional Freezing; Kiev’s Greed Causes Its Suffering; ‘White Traitors’ in the USA?; Cosmopolitan Canada; China Keeps Cleaning Up

Labour Affairs – December 2025 – January 2026

December 2025 – January 2026: click to read it on-line at our website.  Or get the whole December 2025 – January 2026 magazine as a PDF.

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